Didn’t much reflect today – too busy trying to catch up with eight weeks of gardening, and trying to burn off fallen branches and leaves before the fire season begins.

Already tommorrow will be in the 30s – another hot Cup day… perhaps hot enough to have a swim, though the pump registered a water temperature of only 17, and the solar heating won’t get that much past 18 or 19 – early days before the coming heat.

On the Bateleur, noted again that though it is likely that the depictions on the table are items of trickery, that ‘bag’ sure looks like it woulc have been a book, making an ambiguity between Bateleur and him as actual ‘Mage’.